Wire containers come in a wide range of sizes and specifications but a Midlands-based specialist company now provides a number of wire containers for sale or rental. PPS Equipment Management Ltd has built up a solid reputation over the past seven years providing services related to returnable transit equipment (RTE). This started as the management of plastic pallets and food crates, but the company has introduced other RTE, notably a range of wire mesh containers. Heavy duty wire containers are used across a wide range of industries from the food industry to retail to the automotive sector. A typical wire container will ...
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PPS Direct, part of the larger PPS Equipment Management Ltd, based in the Midlands at Measham has recently announced a new service repairing damaged metal roll cages. PPS specialises in returnable transit equipment (RTE) and its management. In the early years this consisted of supplying plastic food crates and plastic pallets to the food industry and once used to despatch products, PPS would take responsibility for its safe return, to wash it and to re-introduce it into the pool system. In addition to its core business, the company started selling metal roll cages a couple of years ago. They quickly understood that ...
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Metal or more commonly wire mesh roll cages are used in almost every industrial sector in the UK today. These ubiquitous products are to be found in supermarkets, warehouses, factories and in large numbers in the retail business. Seldom treated with any respect, these roll cages tend to be seen as no more than a method of transporting goods either within a factory, production unit or warehouse. Usually they are not perceived to have any intrinsic value in themselves – it’s only the goods carried in or on the roll cage that are seen to have value. This of course is ...
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In the food industry, many companies who have a need to use crates now use crate rental as a cost-effective alternative to outright purchase. Why? Well because many prudent Financial Controllers will not release capital expenditure for plastic food crates which the company cannot effectively manage – i.e. retrieve them from third parties. This can cause a lot of hassle for many businesses and often many do not know where to turn to get the service they so require at an affordable price that is still cheaper than purchasing them directly. Fortunately PPS Equipment Management, a company based in Measham in ...
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How PPS Equipment Management Ltd provides what they term a “full service option” for clients looking for crate rental and other different forms of returnable transit packaging. A number of years ago PPS set out a programme that involved renting plastic pallets on a cross-industry basis. It became clear early on however, that whilst there was then (and continues today) a move from traditional timber pallets towards plastic pallets, particularly within the food sector, the large volumes would come from crate rental. Early success in plastic pallet rental lead to enquiries from customers who also wished to rent plastic crates from the ...
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For years the food industry in particular has recognised the benefits of crate hire when it comes to the movement and storage of a range of foodstuffs. But why consider crate hire when surely it would be easier (and cheaper in the long run) to simply buy these crates? For the answer to this question, look no further than PPS Equipment Management, based at Measham in the Midlands. PPS has been involved in crate hire for a number of years and will gladly explain the advantages to a crate user, especially in the food sector, of crate hire versus outright purchase. Take the ...
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PPS Direct which is part of PPS Equipment Management Ltd has recently found some unexpected success in the burgeoning UK wine industry. The company has expanded its direct sales arm and now promotes not only new returnable transit equipment including crate rental, but also a range of fast-moving second hand goods such as metal roll cages, plastic pallet boxes and plastic crates. The nature of second hand equipment such as roll cages and pallet boxes means that it is generally very fast moving and once it’s gone it’s gone! The main part of the PPS operation concerns long-term contracts, which, once ...
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A number of sales to a Midlands-based engineering company have been made for plastic pallet boxes – and for an unusual application! Plastic pallet boxes are a regular staple of sales for some distribution companies, based in Measham in the Midlands. The core business of the parent company is the management of returnable transit equipment (RTE) and the Measham site houses a state-of-the-art industrial wash plant. Plastic crates, tote boxes and plastic pallets are all washed to the highest of standards, and the company was accredited to ISO 22000 earlier this year. And while the company continues to grow in the provision ...
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A number of large companies within the food industry are turning to PPS Equipment Management Ltd for plastic crate hire. These tend to be a small number of standard sizes but all classified as returnable transit equipment (RTE). Plastic re-usable i.e. returnable crates are increasingly replacing one-way trip cardboard packaging not only within the food sector, but also in pharmaceutical, retail and logistics application areas. PPS specialises not only in crate hire, but probably more critically equipment management The company offers a service known as the “total management option” where not only simple crate hire but online asset tracking, retrieval from third ...
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PPS Direct, based at Measham in the Midlands is pleased to announce the arrival of Ron Kiernan to strengthen their Sales Team. Ron joins the business on 1st September and will have a UK-wide remit to develop sales of returnable transit equipment across a broad range of industries. Importantly, in addition to direct sales, Ron will take responsibility for new business development on PPS core businesses such as equipment rental and management, online asset tracking and washing / sterilising of plastic crates, boxes and pallets. Ron brings a wide breadth of knowledge of the returnable transit equipment (RTE) industry, particularly metal roll ...
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